WEBVTT NEWSCENTER 5.ANTOINETTE: THANK YOU, AND WEWANT TO GET BACK TO THE BREAKINNEWS.AARON HERNANDEZ HAS BEEN FOUNDDEAD IN HIS JAI CELL.SHAWN HAS BEEN COVERING THIS FORWEEK, THE DOUBLE MURDER TRIALFOR WEEKS.RANDY: WHEN WE SAW HIM IN THETRIAL WHEN THE VERDICT CAMEDOWN, HE SHOWED SIGNS OF JOY INTERMS OF HIM GETTING OFF ON THEMOST SERIOUS CHARGES.>> HE DID.HE BROKE DOWN IN TEARS AND WEASSUMED THAT THOSE WERE TEARS OFJOY BECAUSE THIS WAS A SIX WEEKTRIAL.IT WAS VERY EMOTIONALLY INTENSE,NOT JUST FOR HIM BUT FOREVERYBODY WHO WAS WITNESSING THETRIAL.BUT THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE TRIALHE WAS VERY EVEN KEELED.HIS EMOTIONS WERE TEMPERED.AT NO POINT DID WE SEE THAT HEWAS HAVING A HARD TIME.HE WOULD COME INTO COURT EVERYDAY WITH A SMILE ON H FACE.HE WOULD GREET HIS ATTORNEYS ANDUSUALLY GIVE THEM A BIGHANDSHAKE OR A HUG WITH A VERYLARGE SMILE, AND IF HE SAWSOMEBODY IN THE COURTROOM IN THEAUDIENCE, THAT WAS THERE FORHIM, USUALLY, HIS FIANCEE, WOULDBE SITTING THERE, THEY WOULDALWAYS LOCK EYES AND THEY WOULDALWAYS GREET EACH OTHER WITH A,YOU KNOW, A SMILE AND A HELLO.IT WASN'T ANY SENSE THAT HE WASSTRUGGLING THROUGHOUT ANY OFTHIS TRIAL, AND THEN TO BEACQUITTED AT THE VERY END,OBVIOUSLY, THIS WAS A HUGERELIEF FOR HIM AND HIS FAMILY.HE WAS ALSO LOOKING FORWARD TOAN APPEAL IN THE ODIN LLOYDCASE, SO HE WAS ACQUITTED OFTHESE DOUBLE MURDERS AND THINGSWERE PERHAPS LOOKING UP FOR HIM,HIS ATTORNEYS, HIS DEFENSE TEAMLOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING ONTHE APPEAL, AS WELL.ANTOINETTE: SO SHAWN, THERE ISNO WAY TO KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ONINSIDE OF AARON HERNANDEZ'SHEAD, WE CAN ONLY BE OBSERVERSFROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING AT WHATWE SEE OF HIS EMOTIONS.TO YOU BEING THERE IN TCOURTROOM, NO SIGNS OF THISCOMING AND EVEN IN ONE OF THELAST DAYS ON THE TRIAL, HEACTUALLY GOT TO SEE HISDAUGHTER, HIS DAUGHTER WAS THEREIN THE COURTROOM, I BELIEVE THATSHE IS FOUR YEARS OLD, AND ANYKIND OF INDICATION THAT MAYBESHE HAD BROUGHT HER IN, THAT --I DON'T WANT TO SAY THAT THISCOULD HAVE BEEN A GOODBYE BUTWAS THERE ANY INDICATION TOANYONE?>> NO, NOT TO ANY OF THEOBSERVERS IN THAT COURTROOMHIS FIANCEE DID BRING THEIRDAUGHTER TO THE COURTROOM ON ONEOF THE FINAL DAYS OF THIS TRIAL.IT WAS INCREDIBLY EMOTIONALSEEING THE DAUGHTER THERE, THEDAUGHTER HAD MENTIONED THAT, TOHER MOM THAT SHE WANTED TO SEEHER DAD.WE KNEW THAT THEY HAD GONE TOTHE PRISON AND THAT THEY HADFATHER AND DAUGHTER BUT THEN TOBE ACTUALLY IN THE COURTROOM INA TYPE OF A SETTING, AND TO SEEHER DAD AND NOT BE ABLE TO GOAND NOT BE ABLE TO SAY HELLO TOHER FATHER, THAT WASHEART-BREAKING, THAT THE CHILDYOU KNOW, WAS WANTING TO GOACROSS THE COURTROOM BAR THERE,AND OBVIOUSLY COULDN'T.IT WAS DIFFICULT TO WATCH THAT.BUT AS FAR AS SEEING ANY OTHEREMOTION BEYOND THAT TYPE OFFATHER AND DAUGHTER BOND, IT WASNO SENSE THAT HE WAS HAVING AHARD TIME, HE REALLY HELD UPWELL THROUGHOUT ALL OF THISTRIAL.SO THIS IS ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING.RANDY: YOU MENTIONED THE APPEALFOR HIS FIRST MURDER TRIAL.AND OBVIOUSLY, THAT IS BEING SASIDE, HE IS -- HE WAS FACINGLIFE IN PRISON FOR THE REST OFHIS LIFE.>> THAT'S TRUE, HE WAS, AND THISIS SOMETHING THAT YOU KNOW THEACQUITTAL OF THE DOUBLE MURDERSOF SAFIRO FURTADO AND DANIEL DEABREU WAS BITTER SWEET PERHAPSBECAUSE EVERY MORNING HE WOULDWAKE UP IN PRISON, BE CARTED BYCORRECTIONS OFFICIALS UP INTOTHE SUPERIOR COURTHOUSE, ANDTHEN BACK AGAIN TO THE SOUZABARANOWSKI PRISON EVERY DAY.AND THAT WOULD BE HIS LIFE.SO THE APPEALS PROCESS AGAINALSO DOWN THE ROAD, WE DON'TKNOW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IN THATPROCESS, OBVIOUSLY, HIS DEFENSETEAM WAS HOPEFUL THAT, YOU KNOW,THAT OBVIOUSLY HAVING HIMACQUITTED ON THESE DOUBLEMURDERS, THAT THEY WOULD BE ONTHE BALL AND BE ABLE TO PUSHTHAT APPEALS PROCESS FORWARD,BUT NO INDICATION AS TO WHETHERHIS LIFE WOULD CHANGE, WHETHERHE WOULD LEAVE LIFE IN PRISONFOR THE ODIN LLO CASE.ANTOINETTE: SHAUN, THE ISSUE OFREMORSE, HE WAS ACQUITTED OFTHIS DOUBLE MURDER IN BOSTON'SSOUTH END IN 2012.THAT WAS THE MOST RECENT TRIAL,BUT THEN HE ALSO, YOU ALSO HAVETHIS MAN A CONVICTED MURDERER,CONVICTED IN THE MURDER OF ODINLLOYD, THAT ONE HAPPENED IN2013.IS THERE ANY SIGN THAT POSSIBLYSEEING THE VICTIM'S FAMILIES INTHE COURTROOM EVERY DAY, DAY INAND OUT, THE EMOTIONS ON THEIRFACES, WERE THERE MOMENTS WHENTHE VICTIM'S FAMILY LOCKED EYESWITH HERNANDEZ A ALL?>> YOU KNOW IF HE MADE ANY EYECONTACT WITH THEM, AT NO POINTDID HE LET IT BE KNOWN TOANYBODY ELSE IN THE AUDIENCE.THEY SAT THERE FRONT ROW, THEFIRST, IN FACT, TWO ROWS, THOSEVICTIMS' FAMILIES, AND THEY WERETHERE DAY IN AND DAY OUT.THERE WAS NOT A DAY THAT THEYMISSED IN THAT COURTROOM.THEY WANTED TO SEE JUSTICE.THEY TRULY BELIEVED THAT AARONHERNANDEZ WAS THE PERSON WHOPULLED THE TRIGGER.NOT ANYBODY ELSE, DESPITE WHATTHE DEFENSE TEAM HAD SAID.THE DEFENSE TEAM HAD BLAMED ITON ANOTHER PERSON, BUT THEYBELIEVED THAT AARON HERNANDEZWAS THE TRIGGER MAN, THE PERSONWHO KILLED THEIR SON AND, THEIRTW SONS, THE QUESTION IS,THOUGH, WHETHER OR NOT AARONHERNANDEZ EVER WOULD FEEL ANYREMORSE.YOU WILL REMEMBER BACK IN THEODIN LLOYD CASE AFTER HE WASCONVICTED NOW HE'S -- HE'S GOTIT WRONG TO THE JURY SO THEQUESTION AT THAT POINT, WE KNEWTHAT HE FELT LIKE HE WAS

'He would never take his own life,' Aaron Hernandez's agent says

Attorney Jose Baez promises to conduct its own investigation

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Updated: 9:47 AM CDT Apr 19, 2017

BOSTON —

While corrections officials say Aaron Hernandez hanged himself in his cell early Wednesday morning, the former football star's attorney and agent are expressing disbelief.

"Absolutely no chance he took his own life," tweeted Brian Murphy, the president of Athletes First, which represented Hernandez during his football career.

"The family and legal team is shocked and surprised at the news of Aaron’s death. There were no conversations or correspondence from Aaron to his family or legal team that would have indicated anything like this was possible. Aaron was looking forward to an opportunity for a second chance to prove his innocence. Those who love and care about him are heartbroken and determined to find the truth surrounding his untimely death. We request that authorities conduct a transparent and thorough investigation.

"The Baez Law Firm will participate in its own examination into this tragic event and update the media and public on its findings when they become available."